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By Sarah Taylor
Out of a period of disillusionment, there is the possibility of union. The key here is to remain open to a higher emotional guiding principle.
This is starting to sound familiar: yet again, we have a connection between readings. This week, it feels like we’re looking at last week’s reading from another angle — this time from an emotional, rather than a spiritual, perspective.
In fact, this reading is all about emotions. All three cards are Cups; all three are minor arcana, although the appearance of the Queen — a court card — gives the reading something of a more enduring, less fleeting, feel to it. This is not about rational analysis (Swords), nor is it about how you interact with the material world (Pentacles), nor how you work with your creative energies (Wands). This is about a wholehearted (read: “whole-hearted”) immersion in feelings.
How to do this? By taking time in solitude in order to be present to what is being offered. This is reflected in the Four of Cups. Maybe all it takes is a shift in focus to draw the youth out of his self-absorbed ennui, and into a state of meditative receptivity to the single cup that is being held out to him. Maybe this is his invitation to emotion, to love. “Love your life once again by loving yourself once again.”